As the antics of this bizarre kakistocracy go from humorous to frightening and on to mass murder, one has to wonder about the thinking of the hard-core Maga base. I mean, at what point will their seemingly unshakable belief in the every word of a guy who is on record as uttering thirty-some thousand lies in his first term? One would hope that a certain basic level of humanity might begin to sour one to this charlatan when he rants on about everyone’s beloved Rob Reiner and his wife who were tragically murdered by their mentally ill son. Instead, in true narcissist style, Trump made it all about himself; tying this tragic death to Reiner’s “Trump derangement syndrome”. I guess Mr. Reiner was a particularly biting critic of the president’s, and unlike so many people in positions of power, was not cowed into biting his tongue about it. That was enough to put him permanently in Trump’s vast list of those who deserve his ‘retribution’.
Well yeah, Reiner, along with well over half of our fellow citizens (recent polling shows Trump’s approval rating down at 36 percent or so, lower than any president except Nixon post-Watergate) seems to have ‘suffered’ from that syndrome. So, I guess my father, who volunteered to go fight World War II in Europe, suffered from Hitler derangement syndrome. With every passing day of this ridiculous regime it becomes more apparent that this government poses an extreme threat to democracy in the United States, not to mention the rest of the world.
Trump is destroying so many things, both domestically and internationally, it is so hard to construct any kind of tally of them in which one is more tragic and/or important than the other! Is the largely US funded Israeli genocide in Gaza and the West Bank any worse than the starvation of perhaps millions of Africans abandoned by Trump and his merciless pitbull Doge? How about the thousands of farmers across the fruited plain who have worked so hard to produce this life-giving food aid? And to lose these vast distribution systems across all of mainly Africa forever, all to save what amounts to a couple of bucks per person per year in this country?!
The pattern has been set for all to see; Trump, or the unseen cabal who guide his purple, swollen hands, just seems to be able to blow by every law, treaty, convention, right down to the most basic kind of human decency, and no one will stand up to him/them! The Supreme Court is useless, dominated by a fascist cabal straight out of Opus Dei, and the UN, for all its promise of world peace, is in danger of being diminished to a point of irrelevance.
The horrific blitzkrieg that we unleashed on the people of Caracas a couple of days ago to enable the kidnapping of their president and his wife (90 dead, much property destruction) could not be a more textbook example of a completely unprovoked military assault in direct violation of the UN charter, to which we are signatories, and international law! Much like the ‘double tap’ strike on that little boat near Venezuela, where they probably used another hundred thousand dollar missile to kill the two survivors clinging to flotsam after the first missile, which was a clearly criminal act. Apparently in the military manual about a soldier’s duties under the Geneva Convention, they actually cite as an example of what would obviously be a war crime, “firing upon shipwrecked sailors”
I wish that everyone could hear one of my favorite political commentators, Jeffrey Sachs, who has served under numerous presidents and has worked for countries all over the world as an economist. He was called upon to advise the UN Security Council which had convened an emergency meeting to discuss how to respond to the US invasion of Venezuela.
His recommendations to the UN Security Council? That it’s existential to the UN; the US invasion of Venezuela is so plainly and blatantly in contravention to every letter and principle of the UN that they must demand that the United States immediately withdraw any troops from the area, desist in it’s completely illegal blockade and stop all of its coercive measures.
The US hardly even bothers to proffer any kind of credible excuse for its naked colonial resource-ripping aggression; this whole story about drug shipment hardly merits a chuckle, especially after Trump just pardoned the convicted and sentenced Honduran chief who was responsible for importing hundreds of tons of cocaine into the US! Of course, maybe he bought $100 million worth of Trump’s crypto. That’s the ticket! Maybe that’s all that Maduro has to do to go home; see how much worth of Trump coins he has to buy to get a pardon, even preemptively! Save a jury a lot of trouble.
They are saying the quiet part out loud; that they’re going to ‘run’ Venezuela, as if it were a Cinnabon location in an airport. I can see just how great that’s going to work out, given all the previous examples of regime change gone wrong, starting with Cambodia, where we turned this once peaceful country into the killing fields of Pol Pot, down through Iran, Afghanistan, Ukraine and another half dozen countries in the area where we have wasted trillions and thousands of lives. How we keep getting suckered into these stupid unending conflicts with no possibility of success is a testimony to the ignorance of the American people.
How deluded are our ‘leaders’ that they cannot foresee the catastrophe they are setting up for us; do they really think that the Venezuelans are going to get on board and work to enrich American oil companies instead of their own society? Oh well, I’m sure the fools running our government think, “if they don’t do what we want, we’ll just figure out which of them are the bad guys and bomb the hell out of them”. Maybe that’s what it all comes down to anyway; burning through the stocks in trade of some of the most profitable companies in the world, the military-industrial (media and legislative) complex. As Trump always loves to brag, “we’ve got the best (killing) equipment in the world, by far!” Such a weird thing to brag about! Such a disgraceful way for a supposedly civilized country to act!
On my blog at inarationalworld2.blogspot.com/2026/01/trump-derangement-syndrome.html
John Arteaga is a Ukiah resident.
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